This evening gives us two writers who take the world on in all its present tumult, and do so with unflinching, open-eyed intensity, engaging in conversation to celebrate the launch of Allison Cobb’s Plastic: An Autobiography (Nightboat). National Book Award-winning poet Daniel Borzutzky, author of the recent Written After a Massacre in the Year 2018, will be part of […]
As Nightboat Books celebrates its 15th anniversary, this reading presents just a few of the books published in 2020 and 2021 that engage nuanced and inventive approaches to crucial contemporary issues. Each of these books implicitly expands the range of approaches to such issues and suggests pertinent and previously unexplored connections among them. The modes […]
Allison Cobb in conversation with Camille Dungy about her book, Plastic: An Autobiography. "Plastic: an Autobiography is a spinning gyre of history, biology, poetry, and chemistry, gathering centripetal force through attention to such particulars as a shard of plastic from WWII found lodged in the belly of an albatross sixty years later. This is a fierce […]
We hope you can join Nightboat Books on May 6th at 8pm ET for a gathering around CURB by Divya Victor! Readers and performers include editors, elders, family, friends and Divya's poetry community who helped bring CURB to life. RSVP here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUpceGhpz0rGdMn3I9pvgl3AnxTMK4oSCg0
We hope you can join us on Thursday, May 13th at 6:30pm EDT for our launch of Plastic: An Autobiography by Allison Cobb, who will be joined by CAConrad and Sawako Nakayasu! RSVP here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMrduGgrjgoE9azDRbgE3Xy-e25_oNI4nF1
Please join us on Wednesday, May 19 @ 7pm EST at St. Mark's Church! In celebration of her monumental new selection, Jump the Clock, Erica Hunt will be reading with Charles Bernstein, Tonya M. Foster, Sawako Nakayasu, and Simone White. Find more info on The Poetry Project's event page here. Book: https://nightboat.org/book/jump-the-clock/
We hope you can join us Saturday, May 22nd @ 2pm PT/5pm ET! Skylight Books is hosting a *virtual* reading featuring Rosie Stockton (author of Permanent Volta) in conversation with Hannah Black! RSVP here.
Join lesbian icon Judy Grahn on Tuesday, May 25 @ 7pm EST for a *virtual* release of her new book Eruptions of Inanna. Through eight dramatic stories, the book explores the Mesopotamian goddess Inanna’s power and relevance for contemporary queer feminist audiences, reimagining central western myths and illuminating how revisiting origin stories is a vital […]
Join us on Thursday, May 27 @ 7pm EST! Books Are Magic is hosting a *virtual* reading in celebration of Muriel Leung's Imagine Us, The Swarm, featuring Aurora Masum-Javed, Kay Ulanday Barrett, Wo Chan & Swati Khurana! Through lyric essays, poems, snark, and memes, this series of performances will highlight a vibrant legacy of Asian […]
“Because…every time I walked out into the view, I, for a split second, participated in that endlessness…” Cole Swensen Art in Time Laura Mullen, Jennifer K. Dick and Eléna Rivera invite you to participate in a celebration of Cole Swensen’s new work Art in Time. Please join us at this June 5th book party, where various brief interventions […]
